Wires wires everywhere. An adventure in circuit bending.

flickr set by antakrt

"One fine autumn day, we got together to circuit bend a piece o' shit old Yamaha PSR6. This is our story."

Moog Realistic Concertmate MG-1: Killer Syth for Radio Shack

YouTube via gearwire
"Nowadays, Radio Shack has earned itself a rep for selling musical products that no serious musician would touch with a ten foot pole lest he or she be ridiculed beyond belief by his or her smarmy musician friends. Though Moog manufactured the Concertmate MG-1 for Radio Shack, it lives up to the Moog name, so anyone who ridicules you for it is committing blasphemy.

Dan Marshall from RedNails gives us a walkthru of the instrument, its capabilities, its quirks and its sound.

See more on Gearwire.com."

Virus C & Nord Modular, one of these creative nights!

YouTube via beckhusen. "Live session with Access Virus C and Clavia Nord Modular G2"

Technics SY-1010

via this auction

"Technics SY-1010 analog synthesizer vintage 1977 Japan rare smallest but fat analog synth with full sized keys SY-1010 is extremely rare cute monophonic analog synthesizer manufactured by Technics in 1977. cute! very small and light weight analog synthesizer it has full sized 32keys 1VCO, noise,VCF(resonance self-oscillating),ADSR,LFO,and each various controls VCO is free scale(not change by octave range)like modular synth simple architecture but very easy to use and can creates versatile sounds fat analog bass sound to warm leads,retro SFX sounds etc good synth for both recording and live performance(small and light weight and looks cute)"

Don't forget...

it's cute.

Syntecno TeeBee Mark III

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"Syntecno TeeBee MkIII . Some people say it is the best TB 303 Clone ever made. Its Sound is amazing and thick. These were hand-made in Holland, and have been out of production for a long while now. The Original creator is still supporting them. This one has two fender guitar knobs instead of the stock knobs on the Tuning and Cutoff. They work as well or better than the Originals. In addition to being an Awesome analog TB 303 type instrument it has:

# Audio Input for filtering.
# Ms 20 style Ring Modulator built in.
# MIDI to CV Converter Built in with 4 CV/Gate outputs
# Aggressiveness control for the resonance
# 50 note or 100 controllers Sequencer
# MIDI IN / OUT / THRU & 2 MIDI merge
# SYNC OUT (which clocks to the MIDI so you can Sync your 606, 808, 303 or other SYNC gear to your MIDI gear)

# These were 1000$ New ~8 years ago, and based on their rarity, I would imagine the price would be a ton more than the asking price soon. It is a very useful tool with all the converters, and sounds it can produce."

Roland JU-6

images via this auction

ARP Pro Soloist

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WOINNE on Digital Fringe

Click here for a modular track by ghostdog on Digital Fringe. It's all done with the Way Out Ware ARP 2600 softsynth. Do check it out. Pretty impressive stuff.

Raymond Scott: The First 100 Years on BoingBoing

Cool to see something from our neck of the woods on Boing Boing. The following is just an excerpt. Be sure to check out the full post on Boing Boing for more.

"Since Scott couldn't hire the perfect musicians, he built them. From the 1940s thru the 1970s, Scott, whose recording studios doubled as science labs, worked increasingly with home-built techno sound generators. He's one of the great overlooked pioneers of electronica, with US patents to prove it. His 1963 Soothing Sounds for Baby series of repetitive, high-tech nap-inducers set the template for ambient music. In 1970, Motown founder Berry Gordy was so impressed with Scott's Electronium, an analog console that composed by artificial intelligence, that he commissioned a unit. Two years later, Gordy hired Scott at Motown-L.A., where the mad scientist toiled until 1977."

brazilian diy

"When I was a child I loved music and wanted to play the piano. However, my family had no money to buy such an expensive instrument. As my father was an electronic hobbist, he started to build this electronic organ from scratch. It started with a simple one-transistor oscilator that produces a sawtooth like waveform, and just replicated such oscilator as many times as the keys he wanted. So this beauty has full polyphony, and each note has to be independently tuned by turning small trimpots. My grandfather also worked on the instrument shaping the keys and building the case, which are made of wood." You can find the rest of the story including images on Marcelo Johann's This is my Father's Synth!. via vito mf